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How you use your GS

How do you use your GS and what about tires?

  • Street tires only, love new pavement and hate rough roads

    Votes: 4 4.9%
  • Dual sport tires but avoid dirt roads when possible

    Votes: 13 16.0%
  • Dual sport tires and ride wherever the GPS says. Seeks out forest and dirt roads.

    Votes: 50 61.7%
  • Switch between dual sport tires and knobbies. Some trail Ridingods

    Votes: 8 9.9%
  • Knobbies all the time, let's get dirty!

    Votes: 8 9.9%

  • Total voters
    81
I like to ride off road... but lately i've been looking to step up the challenge a little.

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No awesome backgrounds today...but instead of a boring 40 mile trip in the Dodge to pick up some electrical supplies, I turned it into a 100 mile early morning all Smiles errand and got to ride with Helen as she was headed to work.

Where's the red flag? :lol2

Carrying pipe is OK, but I prefer smaller loads....

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I've run the Tourance mostly for years and a few sets of TKC in betwee. Last fall I spooned on some Heidenau's and probably stick with them for a while. So far good tread wear, good all around traction. :clap

Kevin
 
No compromises for my GS as I rely on it to take me further off the beaten path than normal dual sport tires will allow.
Knobbies all the time for me, never know when I'll really need the traction to get to the best remote camp spot, or want to ride real fast through the desert would be just a couple of the many reasons I run knobs. Cheap, easily found at any bike dealer while traveling (18" rear mind you) and the ability to run low wire pressure for maximum traction would be a couple other reasons I run knobs.
Lower gearing and the ability to have 9.5 gallons of fuel on board doesn't hurt me either to get way out there and LOST. :)





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Then again, I have fun with knobbies no matter the terrain on my GS. :D

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Oh, that looks really steep and muddy. What happened when you all went through that puddle at rhe end of the vid?

Ian

Not much happened at that puddle, but a KTM did manage to drown itself earlier in the day.

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The trail network was a bit muddy:

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